The Further Adventures of Lucie Miller: Volume One.

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Audio Barring anniversary and special releases, of all the Big Finish Doctors, Eighth has had the most linear of release schedules rarely ...

The BBC and World War Two.

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History The History of the BBC pages have been updated with a huge archive of material from World War II in which corporation staff and ot...

"If we fight like animals, we die like animals!"

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TV Details have been announced for the fourth quarter Doctor Who blu-ray release and it's to be season 26, Sylvester McCoy's fin...

Oh Terry. :(

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TV There's not a lot more that can be added to the tributes to Terrance Dicks, one the key architects on Doctor Who, whose death was...

Art in Bath.

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Art The BBC Archive pages have been updated with this silent footage of the Bath Academy of Art. The material covers all the areas you...

Six-Five-Oh.

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Politics As you probably know, one the few podcasts I listen to all year round is the FiveThirtyEight politics podcast, in which Nate Silv...

The War Master: Rage of the Time Lords.

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Audio This boxset had me at a disadvantage. With the rapidity of Big Finish's releases it's impossible to keep across everything ...

"Hello American People."

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Comedy Here's Simon Amstell on a US talk show doing his material about gay orgies and bondage rooms. Bless his heart.

The Two Popes.

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Film This looks fascinating. Two incredible actors in bespoke roles, an important moment in the spiritual history of the planet and des...

Annie & Camille.

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Film I've just turned off the John Huston directed original version of Annie, a film I haven't otherwise seen all of the way throu...

Seinfeld: The Vampire ...

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TV Enjoy this old SNL Seinfeld parody from 1988 which turned up on their feed at the weekend back when Sarah Michelle Gellar hosted. Th...

WQXR.

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Music  The other night I discovered a new classic music station out of New York , WQXR . It's wall to wall music broken only by local n...

Here is your SIB monthly news update.

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Life As I mentioned in passing in a Tate Liverpool exhibition review , some time in May the bowel on the left side of my crotch made a bid...

Rip Tide.

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Books The first of the Eighth Doctor novellas published by TELOS, Rip Tide is also the most accessible. Told from the convincing point of...

The Legacy of Time.

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Audio The Legacy of Time is Big Finish's giant 20th anniversary Whogasm, an epic six-part story set across time and space bringing tog...

The Sugababes pull into a garage.

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Music Some quick news while I wait for the Muller Hearings. The original Sugababes lineup are reforming to celebrate their 20th anniversa...

Decorative Purposes (Short Trips: The Ghosts of Christmas).

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Books Happy Christmas! Such are the vagaries of catching up on all of these Big Finish short stories, that those printed in these annual ...

The Eye of the Tyger.

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Books Back to the special collections and archive this morning to read another of the ultra rare TELOS Publishing novellas, hard-sf author...

Fallen Gods.

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Books Back when I was visiting north west regional art collections , I eventually had to commute to the Lake District for three days to co...

Architects Assembled.

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Liverpool Life   'Five years to do 10 chuffing houses!' – meet the guerrilla gardeners of Granby: "There are still a few tinne...